Shift and Gather to Celebrate the Holidays
Originally published in the Denver’s Rocky Mountain News on December 3, 2005
Shift
Ventures column compiled by Ashley Acton
• Self-help board game
Price: $39.95
Where you can get it: www.ShiftTheGame.com,Boulder Book Store, Tattered Cover, A Quiet Corner, Tulalah Jones, Shop Composition, It’s Your Move, 12th House
Business owner: Nicole Casanova
Location: Boulder
Tidbits: Chances are your family will gather this season to celebrate the holidays. Inevitably, board games will fly off their dusty shelves and be put into action. Shift, a new “self-help” board game, was created by Boulder resident Nicole Casanova, founder of the umbrella company Exponential Growth. The game is based on empowerment and enlightening principles and uses references from “the big thinkers” such as Gandhi, Buddha and Byron Katie.
“I was trying to create something that conveyed these lofty principles in a really fun and cool way. . . . I wanted to distill all of these universal principles into something that people who weren’t lighting incense in Boulder or Berkeley could experience,” she explains on the Web site.
For more information: 1-866-SHIFT01